Sie ist reizbar, r?tselhaft und viel ?lter als er ... und sie wird seine erste Leidenschaft. Sie h?tet verzweifelt ein Geheimnis. Eines Tages ist sie spurlos verschwunden. Erst Jahre sp?ter sieht er sie wieder. Die fast kriminalistische Erforschung einer sonderbaren Liebe und bedr?ngenden Vergangenheit.
Michael Berg tiene quince a?os. Un d?a, regresando a s casa del colegio, empieza a encontrarse mal y una mujer acude en su ayuda. La mujer se llama Hanna y tiene treinta y seis a?os. Unas semanas despu?s, el muchacho, agradecido, le lleva a su casa un ramo de flores. Este ser? el principio de una relaci?n er?tica en la que, antes de amarse, ella siempre le pide a Michael que le lea en voz alta fragmentos de Schiller, Goethe, tolstoi, Dickens… El ritual se repite durante varios meses, hasta que un d?...
Un grupo industrial farmac?utico ha encargado al detective privado Gerhard Selb, de 68 a?os, que busque a un pirata inform?tico que pone en jaque el sistema inform?tico de la empresa que dirige su cu?ado. A lo largo de la resoluci?n del caso deber? enfrentarse a su propio pasado como joven y resuelto fiscal nazi, y encontrar una soluci?n particular para esclarecer dos asesinatos cuya herramienta ingenua hab?a sido.
Gerhard Self, the dour, seventy-something sleuth, is back in a new chapter in the wonderful series of mysteries by the bestselling author of The Reader.When Gerhard Self happens upon one of the most intriguing cases of his career, he can't resist. From the start, the job is an unusual one: Herr Welker, partial owner of the German bank Weller and Welker desperately wants to write a history of his bank, but he has one problem – a silent partner, whose name does not appear anywhere in the bank's records. Welker wants Self to track this silent partner down. ...
Gerhard Self, the dour private detective, returns in this riveting crime novel about terrorism, governmental cover-up, and the treacherous waters where they mix.Leo Salger, the daughter of a powerful Bonn bureaucrat, is missing, and Self has been hired to find her. His investigation initially leads him to a psych ward at a local hospital, where he is made to believe that Leo fell from a window and died. Self soon discovers, however, that Leo is alive and well and that she was involved in a terrorist incident the government is feverishly trying to keep under wraps. The result is a wildly entertaining, superbly nuanced thriller that follows one detective's desire to uncover the truth, wherever it may lead.
Sixty-eight years old; a smoker of Sweet Aftons, a dedicated drinker of Aviateur cocktails, and the owner of a charismatic cat named Turbo, Gerhard Self is an unconventional private detective. When Self is summoned by his long-time friend and rival Korten to investigate several incidents of computer-hacking at a chemicals company, he finds himself dealing with an unfamiliar kind of crime that throws up many challenges. But in his search for the hacker, Self stumbles upon something far more sinister. His investigation eventually unearths dark secrets that have been hidden for decades, and forces Self to confront his own demons.
In Schlink's unremarkable stand-alone thriller, the fortunes of Georg Polger, a German living in France who's struggling to make ends meet as a translator, change after he receives an offer of steady employment translating technical manuals. The na?ve Polger doesn't suspect anything untoward about the job, even after learning his employer has paid him to duplicate work already done. When he finds that his new lover, Fran?oise Kramsky, is covertly photographing confidential plans for a new military helicopter, Polger's search for the truth takes him to pre-9/11 New York City, where the plot goes somewhat off the rails. Schlink fails to make the transformation of his colorless, mild-mannered hero into an action figure convincing. Those looking for a more engaging protagonist will find one in the author's detective series featuring Gerald Self (Self's Murder, etc.).
“Arresting, philosophically elegant, morally complex… Mr. Schlink tells this story with marvelous directness and simplicity, his writing stripped bare of any of the standard gimmicks of dramatization.” – The New York Times“The best novel I read this year… an unforgettable short tale about love, horror and mercy.”– Neil Ascherson, Independent on Sunday Books of the Year“Breathtaking… a novel that sucks you in with its power, so that once you start to read, you cannot put it down. Truly exciting.” – Focus Munich“One of the most successful, one of the richest, one of the most ...
